Learning to Live Differently - disability and its intersections

About this event

This webinar is focussed on supporting disabled clients through capacity changes, identity shifts, grief, loss, and meaning - an area that often intersects with eating disorders and disordered eating, but is rarely discussed. It will explore multiple different forms of disability, both visible and invisible, and how to support disabled folk as they navigate becoming (newly, more, or multiply) disabled, living with changing capacity, the impacts on life and identity, processing all that this comes with. We will explore these topics from anti-ableist, anti-colonial, depathologising, neuro-affirming, trauma-informed, intersectional, and disability justice frameworks. The workshop is grounded in community wisdom and lived experience, up-to-date research, and clinical practice. Resources to support post-webinar reflection and learning will also be provided to all attendees. Key topics will include: - What is disability, and what does it mean to become (more) disabled? A nuanced, multifaceted lens - The impact of systems/environments - Grief, loss, and the many forms of change - Internalised ableism (clinicians' and/or clients') - Interplay with identity - Supporting dignity, autonomy, access, and quality of life - Considerations for safe, affirming therapy / practice - Disability justice, advocacy, and allyship How and when will it be presented? - The webinar will be presented live via Zoom, from 10am-12:30pm AEDT on Friday 30th May 2025. - It will also be recorded, and the recording will be available for all ticket-holders to access for 30 days post-live event. Who is presenting it? The webinar is created and presented by Lumen Gorrie (they/them). Lumen is a queer, trans, AuDHD, chronically ill, disabled person living and working on unceded Wurundjeri Land. They are a registered clinical psychologist, board-approved supervisor, educator, and advocate. Lumen is passionate about neurodivergence, gender, queerness, eating disorders & differences, chronic illness, disability justice, advocacy, and systemic change. Lumen also has lived experience of eating disorder recovery, and of ongoing eating differences and difficulties related to disability.